Long-term stress damages the brain’s short-term memory system, new research finds.
Chronic stress leads to a build-up of macrophages in the the brain, researchers found.
It took four weeks for the immune response to reduce and the memory problems to resolve.
The researchers also found that the memory problems resolved themselves in 28 days.
How exactly does stress interfere with memory? To answer this question we first need to understand how memory works.
There's a reason why your body feels good when you eat healthy foods — and why you feel so tired after eating junk. Our bodies use energy to convert the foods we eat into liquids to be absorbed. When you drink juice, your body is essentially skipping this step and saving energy.
We all could probably eat more fruits and vegetables. But if forced to choose between whole fruit or a glass of juice, which one seems more healthful?
The general advice is to opt for the fruit, since juices are stripped of the fiber – which most us don't get enough of — in whole fruit. And let's face it: Most juice contains a lot of sugar, which most of us consume too much of.
When it comes to oranges, juice might actually unlock more carotenoids and flavonoids – both beneficial phytonutrients — than an equivalent amount of fruit.
The Christmas spirit has been a widespread phenomenon for centuries, commonly described as feelings of joy and nostalgia mixed with associations to merriment, gifts, delightful smells, and copious amounts of good food. It is yet to be determined, however, where in the human body this “Christmas spirit” resides and which biological mechanisms are involved.
How music affects the way we shop?
It turns out there’s quite a bit of research indicating that music affects our shopping behavior, even when we’re not aware of it.
It's a good time to be an American teenager — but not so much an American adult.
Could changes in society by behind shifts in happiness seen in latest research?
Americans over 30 are less happy than they used to be, new research finds.But teens and young adults in the US are happier than previous generations.It used to be that older people had a happiness advantage, but that could be disappearing.That’s the result of surveys of 1.3 million Americans aged 13 to 96 carried out between 1972 and 2014.
Read more: The Age Group That’s Happier Now Than Ever Before
